Hidden inside tapered sit adepter, predate, retaped and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adepter, predate, retaped and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tapered at 10 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in tapered: three come from rearranging its letters, and tapered itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adepter, predate, retaped, and tapered, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tapered turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeat. For points, the strongest plays are depart, pardee, parted, pedate, petard, prated, and reaped — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tapered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with taped and trade. For points, the strongest plays are adept, drape, padre, pared, pated, preed, raped, and taped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tapered produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, dear, deep, deer, part, and peed. For points, the strongest plays are aped, deep, pard, and peed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tapered turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tapered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
22 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tapered plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tapered and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
tapered is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for tapered. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tapered is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tapered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adepter, predate, retaped, and tapered, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tapered earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in tapered produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.